Researchers at the University of Nottingham have been investigating the viability of landscape-level ecosystem conservation and community development in the context of coffee production, consumption and trade.

Monitoring the sustainability of hunting levels within the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru, is proving successful in maintaining stable populations of animals taken as bush meat whilst ensuring the needs of the local Cocama Indian communities are met

We should be wary of assuming that paying off resource users is a viable long term conservation strategy. It remains just one alternative in the range of options designed to combine the needs of resource users and the wider imperatives associated with conserving what remains of our shared environment